TripAdvisor Reviews Taganka Moscow

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... populous. Today, the hospital is now gone, the school closed years ago, the social club no longer open, buildings are derelict and most people have fled to Moscow for work. All that's now open is one small shop and the largest section in the shop is the vodka section. When we arrived here with bottles of wine as gifts we could only open them by pushing the cork in. No one in any houses we visited owned a wine bottle opener as vodka is the only drink ...

... papers with ticket before boarding the train. Tickets and papers checked twice to be sure to be sure ;-) Comfortable clean carriages with wide aisles and loads of leg room. As with all trains - food disgusting and extortionate. Lovely scenery along the way with houses that reminded me of 'The Little House on the Prairie' (!) with some of the newer ...

Very early start. We were at the airport before the check in desk was open. But we achieved a first, the first to be checked in on the plane. Not that was of any particular advantage since most people had checked in on line and we didn't get seats together on the flight to London. Judi and I got good seats together, but Manus and Nuala had to negotiate a swap. Incidentally, as ...

... if sleeping on two parcel shelves for 6 nights is going to do either of us any good. Not to mention the air con, really just a single speed oscillating fan, which gets to the top of its cycle & drops this happens every 7seconds! Carriage is very hot so we need it on, we need to sort this bloody fan out in the morning My stomach keeps doing a funny little flip when I think of the next few months travel, the Trans Train, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, Beijing and beyond............night, night ...

... br> 9:00 PM Another futile attempt to connect to wifi at the Sheraton Palace. Fail. 9:00-10:00 PM Pack...again. Incredibly pleased that items in suitcase appear to be fitting even better than when I first packed at home. Looking forward to not having to repack again (spoiler alert-my luggage was ransacked in Moscow as well, this time even more extreme than Bucharest. So excited to repack yet again in Kyiv) 6:30 AM Wake up call 7:30 ...